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putting DNS on the torrents

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bwanaaa

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PIPA and SOPA are striking at the fulcrum of the internet-DNS.

Can we side step it? Why dont we make a little tweak..Put dns data up on the torrents. Yeah, yu could automate it with a patched bittorent client that takes the url from the browser, gets it on the torrents, and puts it into the the hosts file. Anyway, people revisit many of the same sites - bogs, news sites, their git, etc - so a functioning and updated hosts file avoids public dns servers. After a while, the torrenting activity would be minimal since your hosts file would have your favorite haunts. browsing is faster and safer (resistance to MITM attacks). Do I fundamentally misunderstand DNS or would this work?
 
From my understanding they'll be affecting the root DNS servers, so if the torrents go to an IP it should be fine, the problem is going to websites. People don't know the IP to thepiratebay.org or linuxtracker.com etc...

Now one thing that MAY work is if a group comes up with a whole new DNS registry. Basically, it would be 3rd party DNS servers run by people part of this group. There would be domain registry etc... so you'd have to reregister your domains, but basically browsers would have these DNS servers built in from that point on. There would be no more using the global root DNS, everyone would start using these "open" DNS servers.

This would probably work for a couple months, then the US would just start shutting down all these servers, physically raiding the data centers etc...

The US is trying to police the world again, and sadly they have the power to do it.

Things are going to get ugly once this passes, and it probably will. Copyright is the US's #1 agenda. It's actually quite ridiculous.
 
yea, using these open dnsservers is like emule was for torrents. you needed a centralized repository of torrents. But that problem was solved by making a distributed hash table and enabling peer exchange. so a distributed dns list shouldn't be that hard to manage. Torrents will be become essential to being online!
 
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